How Governments Quietly Keep You Broke — The Hidden Financial System at Work

How Governments Quietly Keep You Broke — The Hidden Financial System at Work

Governments claim they’re protecting your financial future — but history shows they use the same hidden tricks, century after century, to quietly drain wealth from ordinary people and concentrate it at the top.

The oldest trick is inflation: rulers debase money so they can spend more without openly raising taxes. Rome did it with silver coins. Today, governments do it through central banks. The result is the same — your savings lose value while the state gets a silent tax.

The second trick is forced lending. Medieval kings called it “duty.” Today it’s pensions, Social Security, and retirement systems where your contributions are spent immediately and replaced with IOUs. When the bill finally comes due, benefits are cut or inflated away.

Then came the modern master-trick: public debt. Since the creation of the Bank of England, wealthy investors lend to governments and earn guaranteed interest — paid for by ordinary taxpayers through consumption taxes, inflation, and austerity. The rich lend. The poor repay.

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